Artistic Quote by Cornel West

Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks and myths.…

— Henry Louis Gates

Ralph Ellison is a classic work of erudition, grace, and elegance. Rampersad offers us an Ellison whose gifts and warts orbit the same universe…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett…

— William S. Burroughs

“John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should he more widely read.”

— Saul Bellow

“Who ever said this author had an unmistakable tone? On the contrary, he is known as an author who changes greatly from one book…

— Italo Calvino

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

— Andrej Pejic

Cormac McCarthy is my favorite author in the world. I love him so much. There's one book that informs me more than The Road…

— Matt de la Pena

“A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If he succumbs…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

— Angus Wilson

There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken…

— Harlan Ellison